Even if this didn’t quite hit exactly how I wanted it to, I think it was still a good book. Just maybe not my best timing. I love the Slavic mythology and Eastern European fairy tale vibes. In a lot of ways, I think this is a much more successful Beauty and the Beast retelling than ACOTAR. Maybe the pacing wasn’t doing it for me, and the characters’ romance plot wasn’t as developed as I might want it to be. Solid base, but maybe some room for improvement.